The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-17

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solemn dirge. AS soon as the guard
Of honor had taken up its position
around the hearse the regiment
formed into twelve file front with arms
reversed. The procession then moved
down Clark street until the hearse
passed the front of the house, when
members of the family who so desired
got in carriages in waiting and brought
up the rear. The drum corps played
On arriving at the church the regi-
ment formed a double file front to re-
ceive the body at the Orange street
entrance, in front of which the hearse
drew up. The casket was carried in
the church up Henry street
aisle and placed on dais in
drawn back and the top of the casket
removed exposing to vieS the face of
| the dead. The guard of honor took up
position and then the regiment filed
into church and marched up one aisle,
passed in front of the coffin, breaking
ranks and passing one file on each side,
then down the other aisle
was played as the body was borne in
| church, Beethoven'S burial march.
There will be music in the church dur
| ing the whole time the body lays in the
church. The regiment then reformed
and marched to the armory with the
drum corps leading. When they drew
! up in front of the house the color
bearers faced the doors and the body
was received with dropped ensigns.
IN MOURNING.
| NEW YORK, March II.-An Brook
| Ign is in mourning to-day over the
death of Henry Ward Beecher. Pub
| lie Offices are closed, and business Is
entirely suspended. Memorial serv-
| ices were held in a large number of
churches in the vicinity of Plymouth
church. Uptown streets looked de-
serted. AS early as O'Clock Fulton
avenue was thronged with people hur-
rying in the direction of Plymouth
church. Lines of police were sta
toned at the ends of the block on
| which the church is situated, and no
| one was allowed to pass through
the lines unless he had a
Orange street was two blocks long and
three abreast. The streets were
packed with people, who hung around
hoping that they might be able to get
| in without ticket. Members of Ply
mouth company of the Thirteenth reg
| iment were stationed at the doors of
the church and in the lecture room.
and while a vast crowd of people was
gathering outside of the church, the
lady members of the congregation were
working like beavers within, dressing
| the pulpit and casket with flowers.
The whole interior was turned into
a perfect flower garden and
| the fragant perfume of roses pervaded
the air. The walls, galleries and organ
and Gala lilies. The reading desk was
covered with roses and vines, as was
also the chair in which Beecher sat for
so many years. In the center of the
organ loft was floral emblem in the
shape of a triangle, on the top of which
were perched two white doves with
white ribbons in their bills. The facade
of the gallery was covered with potted
plants and the pulpit was loaded down
with flowers and floral enblems sent
by friends and different organizations.
The casket was placed on catafalque
of white roses, white carnations and
smilax. Directly in front of the read
ing desk there was nothing to indicate
the presence of death except the still
ness which pervaded the room
and the hushed conversation
of the workers of the church had more
the appearance of wedding than
funeral. 1t was nearly 10 O'Clock be-
fore the doors were thrown open to
those who had been waiting without
| floors impatientiy for nearly three
hours. People entered by the Orange
| street entrance and were shown to seats
| by ushers, while the Organist, Harry
upon the grand organ. The first four
seats on the right of the central aisle
| were reserved for relatives of the de-
| ceased. Beecher's family were not
present and the family pew was filled
with flowers. On the left side of the
center aisle were members of the cler-
/ zeal union, of which Beecher was
member for number of years.
Behind these were seated officers of
the Thirteenth Regiment, and members
of the Legislative Committee. Behind
these were delegates from nearly every
social, political or religious organizg-
| ton in New York and Brooklyn.
At half past ten Rev. Dr. Charles II.
Hall, robed in white surplice. and ac-
companied by Rev. s. b. Halliday, en-
| tered the church and assembled the plat
form. When the music ceased, Dr..
Hall commenced to read the opening
sentences of the Protestant Episcopal
burial service. After these the double
quartette and chorus of sixty voices,
sang the burial chant Lord Let Me
Know Mine End The lesson was
read by DR.. Hall, and prayer delivered
by Rev. S. B. Halliday. The rest of
the musical programme was as follows:
| Blessed Are The Depart
| GU 11yAln- jesus 14OVtE OI nv
SOUL" Sentence-''I Heard a Voice."
Hymn Hank, Hank. My SOUL At
| ter the first lesson. Dr. Hall commenced
his grafton. During its delivery there
was not dry eye in the house, and
several times he was compelled to stop
for time to gain control of his voice.
DIR. HALLS SERMON.
Rev. Charles E. Hall said: THE
hand that rests is now still over yonder
and has laid aside the pen over a page
of the unfinished Life of Christ 1t
is possible the last fash of thought as
the conviction drew upon him of the
was to be left unfinished; that he had
not told all men that he would have
then know of that precious revelation
If there was one thing that stirred the
heart that now rests from labor more
than any other that has marked his
life and makes his memory precious to
US now, it was his many sided utteranceS
of Christ living, and going about among
men, like master who first and last
asks us to believe in him, rather than
believe what others say about him. The
radical question of his age has been:
is there faculty Of illuminated reason
to recognize living Christ, who can
talk to us, and by great communication
of this mind and spirit, directly lead
us into all truthS?" The question in
sists upon an answer. It viii not be
put of by any compromises with past
orders and institutions, but renews it
self at every turn, echoing in every adj
vance in science and art; comes up in
every development of literature and
social progress. Is there faith
in Christ, behind the consciousness of
the Individual that can be to him the
very word of God in the Illuminated
mandatory of conscience. In a country
that dreams as yet of the government
of the people, and for the people that
question is inevitable and must be an
swered. It is not an accident, then al
| together that man, whose life has been
moulded by that question and its pos
Z sible answer, should have paused on
an unfinished volume of the life OF
: Christ. He has been man Of the PEG
, pie, Christward. We remind you that